u/Staticage__

I posted this in the other group but it seems like some people here don't go there so, just in case I can find someone here who may have experienced this, I am reposting a slightly edited version with apologies:
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Here's what happened that for a while bent the fabric of reality for me:
I used to own a video store.
I was the one to shelve and input all the VHS/DVDs that came through the store.

I can remember MULTIPLE times handling the cases for copies of "Interview With The Vampire."
I would stare at the picture and muse over the title. I loved that the "The" was so specific: it suggested the interview being conducted was with the most important or infamous vampire. It was a brilliant way to inform the viewer about a character before even encountering him at all.
(At the time I had never seen the movie and I learned later that Lestat was not the one being interviewed...)

I also put the name of the movie into the system. I had to physically type it.
Being somewhat anal, I would pay VERY close attention to everything about a title so it would be precise (in my mind) for all time in the system.
I typed in "Interview With The Vampire" and would later search for it that way.

Customers would sometimes replace the "The" with a "A" and I would correct them, but only in my head. The evidence would be right in front of them in a moment when I pulled the copy off the shelf.

About 2 years ago I heard about an ME regarding this title so I looked up images of the DVD cover--something I had dealt with countless times--and the cover said "A".
"Interview With A Vampire."
I lost it.
How could this be?
I looked up the book cover on google--"A Vampire".
Then I looked up theatrical posters for the original release: “A”!!

It rocked me partially because of the banality of what I was seeing: "A Vampire? Just any old vampire?"
Bleh.
I wrote to a friend who worked at the store and asked him, "What was the movie called with Tom Cruise about vampires.?"
"Interview With The Vampire," he said?
YES!
"Now look it up!"
He did, saw the change and couldn't fathom what was going on.

After a bit I hung up the phone and simply accepted that I may have been wrong about this, while stewing inside about how lame the title "Interview With A Vampire" was compared to "my" version.

But the memory of what "was" never left me.
Several months back I looked up the DVD again and.......it's back to THE!!!!

I texted my friend last night and asked if he remembered our conversation about the change and he did. I told him it had switched back and he felt unwell.

When this flip happened I wondered if it had ever happened before—an ME changing for someone then changing back--but looking into it when I decided to write about my experience I saw that this sort of thing is not uncommon.
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Thanks for reading.

First of all let me say that I am no expert on this subject but I do have various ME experiences. While I'm not married to the idea that this is actually happening, and would generally not kick if someone could prove my experience was a misremembering, I have 2 experiences that cannot be explained away by anything.

**you can skip this part if you are bored of Fruit of the loom squawking**
The biggest is the tried-and-true Fruit Of The Loom cornucopia.
I know it was there because I, like many other people, LEARNED the word "cornucopia" from my mom while looking at a pair of my underwear.
It was 1977 or so, I lived in Canada, I saw the thing behind the fruit and could not even understand what it was so I asked my mom and she explained the picture using the word "cornucopia". I asked, "What is that?"
She said, "It's a basket, you know, like a 'horn of plenty'." (which I did know because of Pilgrim studies in grade 2 or something.

Whatever. Maybe the logo denial's a hoax or something. No biggie.
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Here's what happened that for a while bent the fabric of reality for me:
I used to own a video store.
I was the one to shelve and input all the VHS/DVDs that came through the store.
I can remember MULTIPLE times handling the cases for copies of "Interview With The Vampire."
I would stare at the picture and muse over the title. I loved that the "The" was so specific: it meant the interview being conducted was with the most important or infamous vampire. It was a brilliant way to inform the viewer about a character before even encountering him at all.
People back then would replace the "The" with a "A" and I would correct them, but only in my head. The evidence would be right in front of them in a moment when I pulled the copy off the shelf.

I also put the name of the movie into the system. I had to physically type it. Being somewhat anal, I would pay VERY close attention to everything about a title so it would be precise (in my mind) for all time in the system.
I typed in "Interview With The Vampire." and would look it up that way.

About 2 years ago I looked up the DVD cover for this movie--something I had dealt with countless times--perhaps I looked it up because I hear about an ME regarding it, I don't know--and the cover said "A".
"Interview With A Vampire."
I lost it.
How could this be?
I looked up the book cover on google--"A Vampire".
It rocked me partially because of the banality of what I was seeing: "A Vampire? Just any old vampire?"
Bleh.
I wrote to a friend who worked at the store and asked him, "What was the movie called with Tom Cruise about vampires.?"
"Interview With The Vampire," he said?
YES!
"Now look it up!"
He did, saw the change and couldn't fathom what was going on.

After a bit I hung up the phone and simply accepted that I may have been wrong about this, while stewing inside about how lame the title "Interview With A Vampire" was compared to "my" version.

But the memory of what "was" never left me.
Several months back I looked up the DVD again and.......it's back to THE!!!!

I texted my friend last night and asked if he remembered our conversation about the change and he did. I told him it had switched back and he felt unwell.

When this flip happened I wondered if it had ever happened before, but looking into it when I decided to write about my experience, I saw that this sort of thing is not uncommon.